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Observations of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshifts challenge standard seeding scenarios. We examine a dissipative self-interacting dark matter (dSIDM) model in which gravothermal collapse leads to the formation of massive BH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-02 Tingwei Shen , Xuejian Shen , Huangyu Xiao , Mark Vogelsberger , Fangzhou Jiang

The strong gravitational lensing for charged black holes with scalar hair in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton theory are studied. We find, with the increase of scalar hair, that the radius of the photon sphere, minimum impact parameter, angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Ruanjing Zhang , Jiliang Jing

The bending angle of light is a central quantity in the theory of gravitational lensing. We develop an analytical perturbation framework for calculating the bending angle of light rays lensed by a Schwarzschild black hole. Using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Savitri V. Iyer , Arlie O. Petters

In this paper we investigate the strong gravitational lansing in a charged squashed Kaluza-Klein G\"{o}del black hole. The deflection angle is considered by the logarithmic term proposed by Bozza et al. Then we study the variation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Sadeghi , H. Vaez

In this paper, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing by the stationary, axially-symmetric black hole in Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetime in the strong field limit. The deflection angle of light ray and other strong deflection limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Chun-E Fu , Ke Yang

We investigate the observable signatures -- the shadow, the throat silhouette, and the image of a thin accretion disk -- for a family of static, spherically symmetric wormholes with an arbitrary throat profile. First, we derive expressions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Valeria A. Ishkaeva , Sergey V. Sushkov

Space telescope observations of massive black holes during their formation may be key to understanding the origin of supermassive black holes and high-redshift quasars. To create diagnostics for their detection and confirmation, we study a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Kirk S. S. Barrow , Aycin Aykutalp , John H. Wise

This study investigates the consequences of Lorentz symmetry violation in the thermodynamics and gravitational lensing of charged black holes coupled to the Kalb-Ramond field. We first explore the impact of Lorentz-violating parameters on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Mert Mangut , Huriye Gürsel , İzzet Sakallı

Strong gravitational lensing can produce multiple images of the same gravitational-wave signal, each arriving at different times and with different magnification. Previous work has explored if lensed pairs exist among the known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Connor McIsaac , David Keitel , Thomas Collett , Ian Harry , Simone Mozzon , Oliver Edy , David Bacon

We consider a spherically symmetric black hole metric in (3+1)-dimensions in presence of a positive cosmological constant $\Lambda$. We use a general approach as proposed in \cite{1} to transform the metric in co-moving coordinates. Then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-12 Anish Das , Ashis Saha , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

The hypothesis that classical scalar fields could constitute dark matter on galactic and cosmic scales has garnered significant interest. In scenarios where supermassive black holes (SMBHs) form through the accretion of matter onto black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-31 J. C. Acevedo-Muñoz , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. Cruz-Osorio

We model massive dark objects at centers of many galaxies as Schwarzschild black hole lenses and study gravitational lensing by them in detail. We show that the ratio of mass of a Schwarzschild lens to the differential time delay between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-13 K. S. Virbhadra

We investigate the strong-field phenomenology of a static and spherically symmetric regular black hole supported by an Einasto dark matter (DM) distribution. For the exponential Einasto profile, the geometry is controlled by a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Mohsen Fathi , Faizuddin Ahmed

We compare and contrast gravitational lensing, in the strong-field limit, by photon sphere in spherically symmetric regular electrically charged (REC) black holes ($0<b\leq b_E$) and with those by corresponding REC no-horizon spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-21 Jitendra Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

Observational measurements of the relationship between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the properties of their host galaxies are an important method for probing theoretical hierarchical growth models. Gravitational lensing is a unique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Judd D. Bowman , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , James R. Kiger

The cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological model unambigously predicts that a large number of haloes should survive as subhaloes when they are accreted into a larger halo. The CDM model would be ruled out if such substructures were shown not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Ran Li , Carlos S. Frenk , Shaun Cole , Liang Gao , Sownak Bose , Wojciech A. Hellwing

The study of astrophysical phenomena like black hole shadows is an effective approach to properly understand the modified gravity and explore its validity. Motivated by recent astrophysical observations, we consider a black hole (BH) in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Khadije Jafarzade , Zeynab Bazyar , Mubasher Jamil

Wave Dark Matter (WaveDM) has recently gained attention as a viable candidate to account for the dark matter content of the Universe. In this paper we explore the extent to which dark matter halos in this model, and under what conditions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-08 Antonio Herrera-Martín , Martin Hendry , Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , L. Arturo Ureña-López

At cosmological distances, gravitational lensing can provide a direct measurement of supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses irrespective of their luminosities. Here, we directly estimate the mass of a SMBH in the brightest cluster galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-21 Mandy C. Chen , Tom Broadhurst , Jeremy Lim , Jose M. Diego , Youichi Ohyama , Holland Ford , Narciso Benítez

Wormholes are one of the most interesting topological features in spacetime, offering a rat run between two vastly separated regions of the universe. In this paper, we study the deflection angle of light by wormholes, which are supported by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün , Ayan Banerjee , İzzet Sakallı